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An excitingly ingenious piece of physical theatre mixing the merry, the musical and the macabre in the most memorable way

The Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter says he wants the Brighton Festival
to be a place of “wild ideas” during his stint as its guest director. Those
include an over-60s dance company at Brighton station (Plans, May 10
and 11); a collaboration between the dance company Lost Dog and the writer
of Chimerica, Lucy Kirkwood (Like Rabbits, May 15); and the
singer Peaches performing a one-woman Lloyd Webber musical (Peaches
Christ Superstar, May 19).

It has started strongly. Opus No 7, whose tour reaches the London
International Festival of Theatre next month, is an excitingly ingenious
piece of physical theatre from the